Webpage Making

Introduction to Webpage Making: The Easy Way to Effective Web Sites for Moms, Dads, Writers, Educators, Administrators, and Business Owners Get a website up in minutes with free software on nearly any hosting service in the world. Create whole websites, not just a single webpage, with modern Content Management System (CMSs). Starting with the open source, free software package Wordpress, you can begin your website in minutes. You can pick the graphic look you want from hundreds of choices. You can start creating effective content that communicates with text, pictures, audio, or video in minutes. We will briefly cover Moodle for creating on-line universities and Joomla for an alternative and well supported Content Management System. You will come away with the ability to select your webhosting service, how to create your site, select it’s look and feel, how to put your content on the site, and how to extend your site to do calendars, shopping carts, multimedia, and more.

Instructor: Jim Hinds has a Masters in Computer Science from SUNY/Buffalo and over 40 years of experience in all forms of software development: systems, I/O drivers, computer architecture, languages and applications. He has taught computing at UC Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara Community College. His most recent projects have been creating and supporting Web 2.0 sites for business, time-management, political activism, fault tracking and repair, and bibliographic retrieval.

New Media Arts offers a coordinated series of non-credit and credit classes. Our Summer 2008 courses include classes in the well-known and comprehensive digital imaging software program Photoshop, as well courses in selecting and using a digital camera, travel photography, documenting life using photos, studio lighting, Webpage making, and digital imaging. All classes are held in the New Media Arts PCATT Lab in Kopiko 202.

In addition to the non-credit courses, New Media Arts offers an Associate in Science degree in Animation and the Associate of Science in Interface Design. For more information about degree programs in New Media Arts, please contact Teri Durland at 734-9290.

Customized Training in New Media Arts

Kapi ‘olani Community College can develop non-credit courses and workshops specifically designed to meet the needs of your company or organization. Our customized training is a cost-effective and convenient way to enhance an employee’s knowledge and skills. We design the curriculum and materials for instruction and arrange all sessions. Customized classes meet either in the New Media Lab on campus or on-site, where employees learn in their workplace environment. For more information on customized training in the New Media Arts areas of digital imaging, Website design, animation, and interactive multimedia, contact Jennifer Liu, Arts & Sciences Continuing Education and Training Coordinator, at 734-9315, or by e-mail at liujenni@hawaii.edu.

An updated calendar is also available at pcatt.org/pcatt/schedule (Click on "Sizzling Seminars.") and on the New Media Arts Web site at nma.kcc.hawaii.edu/noncredit.